Originally Posted by Hflyr51

I'm going to ATP with my PPL and 115 hours. So I'll be starting their Airline Career Pilot program at the instrument. ATP for me, the 6 months to finish the program then roughly a year after that be at the 1500 ATP minimums was a no-brainer. Along with airline tuition reimbursement and partnerships with many regionals. That and having talked to some pilots that had gone through the program. I decided to attend the Mesa, AZ location starting in June.

There is a reason they have 42 flight training centers, with very high placement rates. I think for those who don't want to spend A LOT of time in the collegiate 141 realms or try to find personal loans to cover an FBO style school. Then ATP having partnerships to get financing for people like me, and allow minimal downtime while training to obtain all the ratings necessary.

From what I was told in reference with ATP, because how they train to their standardizations they would have you go through their instrument again, and the cost would be the same whether you had the ticket or not. You wouldn't have to take the checkride. I for one think that's a waste. If you plan on attending a fast track program out of college. I'd say just get your PPL, then make sure you have your 80hrs total time with 50 PIC cross country. This is essentially what I did until I can start with ATP.

Just my .02